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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/08/09

Media Strategies: Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp and Time to JV in e-readers. CNN invests in neighborhood news feed Outside.In. Springer to launch  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 8th 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/02/09

Online Media: Google offers publishers limit on free news access. New AOL gambit could undermine premium content goals. Ad Metrics: Under threat, Nielsen accelerates plan to measure online video. Ad Indu  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 2nd 2009

VSS Forecast: Comms Spending to Top $1 Trillion

Total communications spending will decline 1% in 2009 to $882.6 billion, but will grow 3.6% per year over the next five years to more than $1 trillion,  according to a report from private-equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS). This growth will make communications the third fastest-growing sector (behind mining and construction) of the US economy through 2013,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 5th 2009

Facebook Returns to Old Terms of Use

Bowing to pressures from the Facebook community, the social network withdrew a recent revision of its Terms of Use. The Terms, updated February 4, gave Facebook perpetual licensing rights to all content uploaded to the site, even after a user closes his account. It also included a clause enabling it to sublicense material. Revisions were brought out into the open   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 18th 2009

Flash Now Search Engine Friendly, Adobe Says

With the launch of a Flash-reading tool from Adobe, marketers can factor Flash into their SEO efforts, instead of compensating for the presence of Flash with extra text. Adobe, the creator of Flash Player, developed a product that interprets Flash applications for web crawlers, making it possible to index that data for searchers. The technology was released to Google and Yahoo. "This will open up millions of Flash files to search," said VP of marketing Michele Turner of Adobe (  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 1st 2008

TheWB.com to Stream Ad-Supported 'Network Classics'

Warner Bros. has resurrected the dormant WB as an online destination for watching classic shows, reports The New York Times. Two years ago, the WB TV network was killed and replaced by The CW -- which, like its predecessors, targets the teen market. TheWB.com shall feature ad-supported episodes of Frien  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 29th 2008

Warner Music Digital Revenues Climbed 41% in '07

Warner Music Group's digital revenues rose 41 percent from 2006 to 2007, according to the record company's latest fiscal report. For Warner, 2007 marked the greatest US digital album share advantage over physical album share for any major music company. Revenue from digital music for the year totaled $132 million and represented 15.5 percent of total recorded music revenue.   [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 7th 2008

Guitar Games Push Digital Music Sales

Music-oriented video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band are helping boost sales of digital music. Released by MTV Networks and Harmonix two months ago, Rock Band players have downloaded over 2.5 million songs, according to Reuters. Activision's Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock sold over 5 million songs since adding downloadable content in November. Gamers are reportedly mo  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 22nd 2008

With Fresh Content at Deficit, NBC Picks Up MySpace TV's Quarterlife

Marking the first time an internet series has been bought by a TV network, NBC picked up MySpace TV's web series Quarterlife. NBC will air the show from its first episode and tap into unaired episodes as well. New episodes are on hold due to the writer's strike, but there are "suggestions" NBC bought the show as a result of the strike: hard up for fresh content, the ne  [...]
Posted: Monday, November 19th 2007

AOL to Relaunch TV Portal with New Features

Now that streaming TV shows online is commonplace, AOL is relaunching its classic TV portal with new features, reports MediaPost. In2TV was among the first to stream TV shows -- not current fare but classic series episodes -- online. Now AOL has partnered with Warner Bros. to make not only classic TV, but newer shows, available through the portal. The relaunched  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 13th 2007

What Strike? Gametap's 'Sam & Max' Enters Second Season

While Hollywood writers vigilantly maintain their strike, computer game writers aren't skipping a beat. Telltale Games' Sam and Max series has entered its second "season" today with the launch of Ice Station Santa, according to Wired's Game|Life. Available in multiple episodes, the series launched on Turner's Gametap. It is also available directly from Telltale's   [...]
Posted: Friday, November 9th 2007

SpiralFrog Finally Ready for Testing

SpiralFrog, the long-delayed ad-supported music and video site, has finally announced plans to enter a testing phase, reports The Washington Post. The site has already begun a private, limited beta test period. Beta testing will be expanded, the company says, after it accumulates feedback from all parties involved. SpiralFrog's model is to   [...]
Posted: Friday, August 10th 2007

Prize Handouts Help Microsoft Gain Search Users

Microsoft's share of searches performed rose in June, drawing a significant number people to its search functions with a promotional puzzle contest, reports The Seattle Post Intelligencer. The Live Search Club integrates puzzles and games into search activity. Points for completing puzzles can be accumulated and then redeemed for various prizes. While that leads some to wonder if the three   [...]
Posted: Monday, July 16th 2007

MySpace and Photobucket Make Nice

After a dispute that had MySpace blocking Photobucket slideshows from the site, the two parties have resolved the issue, reports the Associate Press. While details on the arrangement have not been made public, Photobucket content is once again able to be added to MySpace profiles. MySpace had blocked Photobucket content because of a Spider-Man 3 themed slideshow pre  [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 26th 2007

Blinkx Goes Public

Blinkx is going public on the London Stock Exchange after merging back into the consumer division of Autonomy, its former parent company, reports the.next.net. That consumer division is getting spun off in the IPO. Although Google's video search focuses on videos uploaded to Google Video and Youtube, Blinkx searches videos across the entire web  [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 26th 2007

Web 2.0 Site Viewing Up 668%, Participation Still Low

User-powered "Web 2.0" sites like Flickr and YouTube have little participation, yet visitors who like to watch rather than create have spiked 668 percent in two years, according to Reuters. Visits by Web users to the category of participatory Web 2.0 sites account for 12 percent of U.S. Web activity, up from only 2 percent two years ago, the study showed. A tiny 0.16 percent of visits  [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 19th 2007

Net Media Firm to Go Public (Again)

Gamevertising firm IGN Entertainment filed to conduct another initial public offering to raise up to $200 million. Of that, more than $119 million would go to retire debt and buy out preferred stock. Current e  [...]
Posted: Friday, July 15th 2005

Cross-Media Adspend Articulated

eMarketer took data from AdAge, TNS Media Intelligence/CMR, Yellow Pages, and Deutsche Bank to create a nifty chart laying out the spending different product categories put against various media in 2003. eMarketer's report states that the increased spending in rich media advertising online, coupled with increased penetration of broadband connections will make for lots of internet adspend growth, particularly when combined with an increa  [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 9th 2004

Forrester: 13 Percent of All Sales to Be Online by 2010

Internet Retailer: Online retail spending on merchandise keeps on rising, says Forrester By 2010, about one in eight dollars spent on general merchandise will be spent online, according to Forrester Research. Online retail spending will hit $151 billion, up from today's $76 billion. Online ticket sales are also expected to more than double to $9.4 billion. Other items, including automotive and online travel, will rise to $156   [...]
Posted: Friday, August 13th 2004

Interview: Tower Record's Senior Vice President Kevin Ertell

eMarketer: Rising to Tower-ing Challenges Oh, the beleaguered music industry. What with Napster, Napster's re-birth and many other file swapping companies out there, you'd think most traditional records stores would just go away. Well, Tower Records seems to be holding its own. eMarketer's David Berkowitz interviews Tower Records' Kevin Ertell who says things are healthy and growing for the company. I was never a Napster user so I  [...]
Posted: Friday, July 11th 2003